U.S. Corporations Trivia

1. Nike is an American corporation specializing in the sales of sports equipment. In which state would you find their headquarters?

From Quiz Just Do It

Answer: Oregon

The Nike head office is located near Beaverton, Oregon in the Portland area. In addition to sports equipment, they also supply footwear and athletic apparel. They offer one of the most prestigious brands in the sports business.

From Quiz Get In The Car, We're Going To WalMart

Answer: Sam Walton

Sam Walton (a.k.a. Samuel Moore Walton), a graduate of the University of Missouri, opened the first Wal-Mart store with his brother Bud (a.k.a. James Lawrence Walton).

From Quiz Tupperware Brands Corporation

Answer: Earl Tupper

Earl Tupper was born in Berlin, New Hampshire, USA in 1907. He worked for the DuPont Chemical Company where he used leftover pieces of polyethylene (plastic) to mould lightweight, non-breakable containers. Rick Goings was the Chairman and CEO of Tupperware Brands Corp as at 2009, Brownie Wise was instrumental in convincing Earl Tupper to sell his product through a direct marketing strategy, and Mila Pond was the first person to hold a Tupperware party in England, in October 1960.

From Quiz All about eBay!

Answer: My eBay

My eBay list all of your recent and past activities such as buying items, selling items, watching items, your messages, and account info.

From Quiz Founders and CEOs

Answer: Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang helped found Yahoo! Sergei Brin is from Google, Carly Fiorina is from Lucent and then HP, and Meg Whitman is from eBay.

From Quiz The History of Google

Answer: Sergey Brin

In 1996, Larry Page met, Sergey Brin at Stanford University. The two found a common interest in retrieving relevant information from large data sets and this formed the basis of their eventual launch of Google, which originally started as a research project.

From Quiz McLawsuits! (McDonald's Related Lawsuits.)

Answer: Hot Coffee

Stella Liebeck was a passenger in a car being driven by her grandson when she placed the coffee cup between her knees and tried to remove the lid (to add cream and sugar) and the hot coffee spilled into her lap. Ms. Liebeck suffered third-degree burns from the hot coffee spill and underwent skin grafting for her injuries. She asked McDonald's® for medical costs, but was turned down and filed her lawsuit against the company. The jury, after testimony from both sides showing the corporation heated its coffee to 20 degrees above industry standard and had been made aware of the risk by over 700 prior coffee burn related incidents, found in favor of Ms. Liebeck. Ms. Liebeck was awarded both compensatory and punitive damages, but her punitive damages were later reduced by the judge (even though the judge found McDonald's to be at fault). The parties reached an undisclosed settlement in August of 1994.

From Quiz The U.S. Mortgage Industry

Answer: FNMA

If you try and pronounce FNMA as a word it comes out sounding like Fannie Mae. FNMA is the term for conventional non-government loans and is short for Federal National Mortgage Association. FHA stands for Federal Housing Administration and HUD stands for the Department Of Housing And Urban Development.

From Quiz Which American Company Am I?

Answer: McDonald's

After 65 years in business, McDonald's serves 50 million customers worldwide every day as of 2006. Nearly one in eight members of the US workforce have, at one time or another, been employed at McDonald's.

From Quiz Corporation Pioneers

Answer: Raymond Kroc

McDonald's was originally started by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald, of San Bernadino, California, in 1948. By 1955 they had 8 outlets. With their permission, Ray Kroc opened their ninth outlet, in Illinois, and subsequently acquired the business from the McDonald brothers, and the business began its inexorable creep across the world.

From Quiz Pizza Hut

Answer: 30

Research shows that if a store is quoting a delivery time of more than 40 minutes, potential customers are lost. If you are that hungry, consider ordering earlier!

From Quiz American Big Business: Part 2

Answer: Maytag

Maytag also owns Amana, Magic Chef, Jade and Hoover floor care products.

From Quiz American Big Business: Part 1

Answer: Kellogg's

William Kellogg and his brother started making cereal in 1894 when they ran boiled wheat dough through rollers which enabled them to produce thin sheets of wheat. After a sudden interruption in their laboratory activities left cooked wheat exposed to the air for more than a day, the Kellogg brothers decided to run the wheat through the rollers despite the fact it was no longer fresh. To their amazement, instead of a single, large sheet of wheat, the rollers discharged a single flake for each wheat berry - cereal flakes were born.

From Quiz Levi Strauss: The Man Behind the Jeans

Answer: 1829

Levi (Loeb) Strauss was born on February 26, 1829 in Buttenheim, Bavaria to Hirsch Strauss and Rebecca Haas Strauss.

From Quiz 75 Years of Motorola!

Answer: Galvin Manufacturing Corporation

Paul V. Galvin and his brother, Joseph E. Galvin, purchase a battery eliminator business in Chicago, Illinois, USA. They incorporated Galvin Manufacturing Corporation on September 25, 1928.

From Quiz Coke vs. Pepsi

Answer: Pepsi

According to the company's site, the drink was invented by Caleb Bradham and first served in his shop, Bradham's Drugstore. Brad is thus a contraction of Bradham.

From Quiz Nothing Else is a Pepsi

Answer: North Carolina

From Quiz Who Owns or Who Makes What?

Answer: Daimler AG

Freightliner Trucks is a division of Daimler Trucks North America, which itself is part of Daimler AG. In addition to medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks, Freightliner also builds buses for school systems and city transit systems.

From Quiz Remember Napster

Answer: Shawn Fanning

Fanning could not find the music he was after on established sites. Music via the net was still music that was marketed by record companies and E stores, not the songs he wanted to listen to.

From Quiz The Life and Times of Louis Chevrolet

Answer: Switzerland

Even though he was often referred to as a Frenchman, he was in fact a French speaking Swiss.

From Quiz Seven Come Eleven (7-11)

Answer: 1927

A Southland Ice Company employee started selling milk, eggs and bread from the ice dock from 7 AM to 11 PM.

From Quiz Where's The Biz?

Answer: Memphis, TN

Memphis is not only centrally located in the U.S., it is also far enough away from serious winter weather that may cause transportation problems.

From Quiz Company Towns

Answer: Wilmington, Delaware

DuPont was founded two hundred years ago in Wilmington, and the home offices are still there today.

From Quiz Identify the US Business Sign

Answer: McDonald's

It's one of the few signs that you can see anywhere in the world and instantly recognize.

From Quiz Milton Hershey: The Man Behind the Kiss

Answer: 1857

He was born on September 13, 1857, in a farmhouse near the Central Pennsylvania village of Derry Church in Derry Township, PA. He came from a family that came to the U.S. from Germany and Switzerland in the 1700s.

From Quiz Names and Their Products

Answer: Home Furnishings

From Quiz Corporate Origins

Answer: New York

George Eastman started his company in Rochester.

From Quiz General Motors

Answer: John Z. Delorean

John Z. was a very colorful character. He was partly responsible for the 'dress code' change at GM. He was a drag racer, and in later years spent time in prison.

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